Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer is that the two do not have much to do with each other, except that both are drawn from 19th century novels and both end with haunting cries on behalf of the dispossessed. Nickleby was story theater, narrating its tale as much as acting it out, and using relatively simple sets, lights and costumes. Les Miserables is lavish, with turntables rotating iron gates, marble pillars and big makeshift barricades. Nickleby told of virtue rewarded and villainy punished, while Les Miserables depicts a world less blessed with moral order. But whether or not Les Miserables can match Nickleby's commercial...
...that inspired his theories of natural selection. But according to Vonnegut, nature goofed: Homo sapiens' highly developed cerebral lobes were responsible for the world's troubles. Thinking generated opinions, rationalizations and a peculiar sense of pleasure from cruelty. Says Leon the friendly ghost: "This was a very innocent planet, except for those great big brains...
...physicians' co-presidents differ markedly in political sophistication and influence. Lown, 64, long associated with Harvard's School of Public Health, is largely apolitical except for the subject of disarmament, on which he has strong opinions. Last week he stated that the unilateral Soviet ban on nuclear testing, announced in July, "should be reciprocated by the West" as an inducement for "enormous achievements" at the upcoming Reagan-Gorbachev summit. Chazov, 56, director of the vast U.S.S.R. Cardiology Research Center, is a member of the Communist Party Central Committee and head of the group that oversees medical care for members...
...Friday afternoon and the crowd outside the door of Moscow liquor store No. 21 had grown to about 200. The line was especially long because the weekend lay ahead, when it would be impossible to buy a bottle of liquor except on the black market. When the doors opened promptly at 2, the people began inching their way to the shabby counter to buy their vodka. A young man in a padded jacket of the kind usually worn by laborers had been waiting in line since midday to purchase his bottle. "The new antialcohol measures are a hardship...
...altogether, something rather more than an alternative form of dressing. They are Japanese in origin, Western in spirit and, finally, universal not just in their impact but in the ravishing new images of the body they propose. These clothes taunt trend and defy style; they are not "fashion," except in its broadest generic definition. They are objects made by a designer who has the true spirit of an artist...